Sentence examples for granted mercy from inspiring English sources

Mr. D'Antonio declined to say how many people had been granted mercy deletions.

She was granted mercy when Rajiv's widow, Sonia, intervened but three others – Santhan, Perarivalan and Murugan (Indian Tamils do not use surnames) – were to be executed in September 2011 when the Madras high court intervened, citing their mercy petitions.

In the end, granting mercy comes down to just two people.

Kings had the ability to grant mercy to those convicted of crime; the framers wanted their leader to enjoy the same ability.

Last-minute presidential pardons got a bad name under Bill Clinton, who used his final day in office to grant mercy to fugitive tax evader Marc Rich.

This is clemency season, the time when governors across the country are cajoled, lobbied and briefed about how they should exercise their sweeping power to grant mercy.

Time to quickly select Andy Fairweather-Low's Wide Eyed And Legless to prompt his memory and spark his conscience: he needs to be in a position to grant mercy to poor innocents led astray by "God's grain".

The four-day convention in Cleveland has seen repeated cries of "lock her up" when Clinton's name is mentioned, but Trump waved these chants aside as if granting mercy with his hands and urged instead: "Let's defeat her in November".

They're disillusioned when God grants mercy and the planes land and the ships dock and the forecasted plague becomes a mere rash.

There ought to be time for at least one question that asks about this vestigial power of kings to grant mercy, which will rest uneasily in the hands of the election's victor.

On Tuesday the supreme court said keeping the men on death row indefinitely was wrong and granted them mercy.